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Jason Reynolds

(b.1983)

After earning a BA in English from The University of Maryland, College Park, he moved to Brooklyn, New York, where you can often find him walking the four blocks from the train to his apartment talking to himself. Well, not really talking to himself, but just repeating character names and plot lines he thought of on the train, over and over again, because he's afraid he'll forget it all before he gets home.

Awards: Carnegie (2021), Edgar (2018), LA Times (2017) see all

Genres: Children's Fiction, Science Fiction, Young Adult Romance, Young Adult Fiction

New and upcoming books

October 2025

Coach
(Track , book 5)

Series

Track
   1. Ghost (2016)
   2. Patina (2017)
   3. Sunny (2018)
   4. Lu (2018)
   5. Coach (2025)

Stunt Boy
1. In the Meantime (2021)
2. In-Between Time (2023)

Novels

   My Name Is Jason. Mine Too (2009)
   When I Was the Greatest (2014)
   The Boy in the Black Suit (2015)
   All American Boys (2015) (with Brendan Kiely)
   As Brave As You (2016)
   Long Way Down (2017)
   Look Both Ways (2019)
   Ain't Burned All the Bright (2022)
   Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . . (2024)

Collections

For Every One (poems) (2018)

Series contributed to

Spider-Man
Miles Morales (2017)
Miles Morales Suspended (2023)

Picture Books show

Non fiction show

Books containing stories by Jason Reynolds

The Collectors (2023)
edited by
A S King

Anonymous Sex (2022)
edited by
Hillary Jordan and Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan

Foreshadow (2020)
Stories to Celebrate the Magic of Reading and Writing YA
edited by
Emily X R Pan and Nova Ren Suma

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Awards

	2022 Indie Book Award for Children's Fiction : When I Was the Greatest
	2021 Carnegie Medal : Look Both Ways: A Tale Told in Ten Blocks
	2018 Edgar Award for Best Young Adult Novel : Long Way Down
	2017 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel : Long Way Down

Award nominations

	2025 Libby Award for Book of the Year - Young Adult Fiction (runner up) : Twenty-Four Seconds from Now . . .
	2019 Carnegie Medal (nominee) : Long Way Down
	2018 Newbery Medal (nominee) : Long Way Down
	2018 Michael L. Printz Award (nominee) : Long Way Down
	2015 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Young Adult Novel (nominee) : The Boy in the Black Suit

Jason Reynolds recommends

El Nino (2025)
Pam Muñoz Ryan
"A brilliant amalgamation of myth, nature, sport, and loss. I've never read anything like it!"

Louder Than Hunger (2024)
John Schu
"John Schu has given us a courageous tale confirming that the voices inside of us - the ones trying to silence our lives - are real, but conquerable. This is a story of triumph, and I hope that for readers, Louder Than Hunger is louder than heartbreak."

Rebecca, Not Becky (2023)
Catherine Wigginton Greene and Christine Platt
"Platt and Wigginton Greene drop a big spoon into the stewpot of race, relationship, class, and age, and serve the reader one sip at a time. Some of it is sweet. Some, sour. Some of it is even a bit spicy. But all of it... yes all of it, is delicious (and might even be healthy). Masterfully done!"

Salt the Water (2023)
Candice Iloh
"There are many things Iloh accomplishes in Salt The Water, but the most impressive, and arguably the most important, is that this unflinching portrayal of the necessary irreverence of Black teenagers on a complicated quest for self-actualization is one of the best I've seen in a long time."

Sweet, Soft, Plenty Rhythm (2022)
Laura Warrell
"In an exceptional debut, Warrell turns love, or at least the love life of musician Circus Palmer, into the proverbial jazz club: dark and sexy, freeing and frightening, ecstatic and lonely.... A modern masterpiece."

The Tragedy of Dane Riley (2021)
Kat Spears
"In this necessary tale grappling with some of the prickly parts of life—mental health, loss, friendship—Spears proves once again that she's a master, not just of the teenage voice, but also of carefully crafting stories with both heart and teeth. Stories that bond themselves to readers and live with them—in them—far after the last page."

A Chorus Rises (2021)
(Song Below Water, book 2)
Bethany C Morrow
"Beautiful and brillaint."

The Final Revival of Opal & Nev (2021)
Dawnie Walton
"The Final Revival of Opal & Nev is as musical and revolutionary in tone and structure as it is in content. It delves into the complexities of the creative life, specifically as it pertains to Black women, and instead of shying away or egg-shelling, it does what every good book does: tells the truth. A truth that bangs. That shrieks. A siren song to shatter what we've known of the novel. Things won't ever be the same after this. And I'm so happy Dawnie Walton has arrived."

Your Corner Dark (2021)
Desmond Hall
"The best way to describe Your Corner Dark, is to say it’s a stomach-knotter. It’s one of those tales that ties you up, turns you inside-out, wrings you like a wet cloth. Desmond Hall leaves us no choice but to root for Frankie Green, a young man in Jamaica doing everything he can to claw himself out of the bear trap of his environment, that has transformed him, not exactly into a bear, but definitely into more than just a good boy. Take note—Hall is a hurricane of a writer."

Chlorine Sky (2021)
Mahogany L Browne
"A story about heart and backbone, and one only Mahogany L. Browne could bring forth."

Ways to Make Sunshine (2020)
(Ryan Hart, book 1)
Renée Watson
"Watson, with rhythm and style, somehow gets at . . . the life-changing power of voice and opportunity, all wrapped up in Jade."

Other Words for Home (2019)
Jasmine Warga
"This is a necessary story. We're lucky to have it in the world."

Monday's Not Coming (2018)
Tiffany D Jackson
"Tiffany D. Jackson chips at the world, then cracks it, then shatters it into shards of discomfort and complexity for the reader to grapple with it. Allegedly, undoubtedly, will linger long after it’s over."

The Poet X (2018)
Elizabeth Acevedo
"Though vivid with detail about family, love, and culture, The Poet X is more of an exploration of when the poet becomes the poem... Acevedo delivers an incredibly potent debut."

Dear Martin (2017)
(Dear Martin, book 1)
Nic Stone
"Raw and gripping. An undeniably real feast of fury and forgiveness."

Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)
(Bois Sauvage, book 2)
Jesmyn Ward
"If Sing, Unburied, Sing is proof of anything, it's that when it comes to spinning poetic tales of love and family, and the social metastasis that often takes place but goes unspoken of in marginalized communities - let alone the black American South - Jesmyn Ward is, by far, the best doing it today. Another masterpiece."

The Hate U Give (2017)
(Carter Family , book 1)
Angie Thomas
"As we continue to fight the battle against police brutality and systemic racism in America, THE HATE U GIVE serves as a much needed literary ramrod. Absolutely riveting!"

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